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Streaming fragmentation has turned your TV time into a chaotic maze of walled gardens. One developer, fed up with the nonsense, built a free macOS app that unifies your Continue Watching lists across Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, and more. It’s a personal project, not a startup—and that’s exactly why it works. The future of streaming isn’t more apps. It’s fewer.
Netflix’s reported acquisition of Letterboxd isn’t about adding a social feature—it’s about capturing the ‘taste graph’ of cinephiles. Every review, list, and rating becomes proprietary data to guide production investments. The real threat is not a UI change, but the monetization of cultural passion as unpaid labor for an algorithm.
A developer built a faster, simpler alternative to Letterboxd—and intentionally hid the social features. No reviews, no ads, no tracking. Just a clean watchlist and diary. This is the quiet rebellion against feature bloat, proving that the best apps are the ones that get out of your way.